pintado
Americannoun
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pintados,
plural
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pintadoes
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pintado
1595–1605; < Portuguese, past participle of pintar to paint < Vulgar Latin *pinctus painted. See pinta
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The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg
The pintado is a southern bird, and of that temperate zone; for I never saw of them much to the northward of 30 degrees south.
From A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
The ship was now surrounded by albatrosses, penguins, and pintado birds.
From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by William H. C. Groome
The last pintado left us 240 miles within the tropics to follow an outward-bound vessel.
Many hundreds of the white-rumped mhorr browsed on it undisturbed, and the pintado and the partridge seemed to be without end.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
Forbes Watson classifies the calicoes as being white, bleached and unbleached, striped, &c., printed chintzes, or pintadoes.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
Some tropic birds were seen this morning but as yet neither albatrosses nor pintadoes had made their appearance.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King
From the lat. of 40° to 30° 38' both S. we frequently saw great shoals of seals and penguins, which were always attended by flocks of pintadoes, birds about the size of pigeons.
There were few mountains, and only such hills as were enough to form the ravines and pools where the pintadoes and snipes went sailing and diving through.
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
These were interspersed with rich yellow grass, swarming with antelope, hares, bustard, and florikin; whilst fine cedar-like camel-thorns stretched their long arms over troops of pintadoes, coveys of partridges, and spur-fowl.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
He believes that in the South there are many more pintados, whose disease has been wrongly diagnosed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within five or six days we had unladen her of 950 packs of calicoes and pintados, or chintzes, besides many packages of other merchandise.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg
We found abundance of green figs, fine oranges and lemons, plenty of goats and hogs, and numbers of partridges, pintados, and other wild fowls.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
Cassedys nill, alleias, broad pintados, with spotted, striped, and checquered stuffs, are most in request, and sell at good profit.
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